Volume 47, Number 3 · February 24, 2000
On 'Hindoo Holiday'
By Eliot Weinberger
The double 'o' in Hindoo Holiday[1] immediately signals that we are returning to another time: one that was not so long ago, but is now as antiquated as its orthography. An era that was tragic, perhaps, in its essence, but comic in its particulars; a time of unspeakable wealth and inconceivable poverty, continual cultural misunderstandings, unfettered whimsy, and cruelties large and small: the age of the British Raj and the Indian princes.
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